Airwolf
1 9 8 4 - 1 9 8 7 (USA)
Airwolf is a combat helicopter
- but it's no ordinary combat helicopter.
It flies very
fast and has really big guns. In fact, it's a Mach 1+ attack
helicopter with the most advanced weapons system in the air today.
It has also been pinched, by ace test pilot Stringfellow Hawke (a
cello-playing mountain recluse) who has hidden the chopper in the
desert somewhere in the western USA, but has promised to look
after the chopper, and to return it safe and sound if the
government find his brother, St John Hawke, who is MIA (missing in
action) in Vietnam.
Hawke is a brilliant combat pilot and
brings Airwolf out to play every now and then when Archangel, (the
Deputy Director of the agency known as The Firm) has a mission of
national concern for him. Archangel inconspicuously always wore a
white suit and an eye patch and carried a stick.
Then Hawke
and his middle-aged co-pilot and buddy Dominic Santini fire up the
chopper and go and upset whoever they are tasked with upsetting.
In later episodes they were also sometimes joined by
female pilot Caitlin O''Shannessy. Archangel's attractive
assistant Marella also made an appearance.
Airwolf
underwent a change in 1987 when CBS cancelled the show and it
carried on with a different cast on the USA Cable Network.
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